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Polar Bears Are Thriving

Jack Hays said:
It has had its effect, despite the old boys' efforts to suppress it. You'll note their only riposte has been to attack Crockford personally.
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I guess when you can’t address the substance, you go ad hominem.

but note that your example of the ‘best work’ she’s done is a non- peer reviewed article published nowhere but on a preprint server.
 
Threegoofs said:
Sank them? a paper in a non peer reviewed journal that THREE YEARS LATER has never been published???


Youre really bad at this.
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Crockford is easily ignored as a hack
 
Threegoofs said:
I guess when you can’t address the substance, you go ad hominem.

but note that your example of the ‘best work’ she’s done is a non- peer reviewed article published nowhere but on a preprint server.
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I don't believe I used the term "best work." The united front of "old boys" against her is documented in their own work.
 
Jack Hays said:
I don't believe I used the term "best work." The united front of "old boys" against her is documented in their own work.
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As they are against any hack
 
Jack Hays said:
The doomsayers must be frustrated. Those pesky polar bears just keep thriving despite predictions of their demise. How many times do the doomsayers have to be wrong before they admit their error or people just start ignoring them? Right now the global polar bear population estimate is just under 30,000.


[h=2]State of the Polar Bear Report 2018: Polar bears continue to thrive[/h]Posted on February 27, 2019 | Comments Offon State of the Polar Bear Report 2018: Polar bears continue to thrive
[h=3]PRESS RELEASE 27 FEBRUARY 2019, INTERNATIONAL POLAR BEAR DAY[/h][h=4]New Report: Polar Bears Continue To Thrive[/h][h=3]
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[/h]Inuit paying the price of rising bear populations
The State of the Polar Bear Report for 2018, published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, confirms that polar bears are continuing to thrive, despite recent reductions in sea ice levels. This finding contradicts claims by environmentalists and some scientists that falls in sea ice would wipe out bear populations.
The report’s author, zoologist Dr Susan Crockford, says that there is now very little evidence to support the idea that the polar bear is threatened with extinction by climate change.
“We now know that polar bears are very resourceful creatures. They have made it through warm periods in the past and they seem to be taking the current warming in their stride too”.
In fact, it is the human residents of the Arctic who seem to have most to worry about. With more and more bears on the landscape at all times of year, there have been worrying reports of people being threatened, mauled and even killed, particularly from Nunavut, in the Canadian north.
As Dr Crockford explains,
“The people of Nunavut are not seeing starving, desperate bears – quite the opposite. Yet polar bear specialists are saying these bears are causing problems because they don’t have enough sea ice to feed properly. The facts on the ground make their claims look silly, including the abundance of fat bears. Residents are pushing their government for a management policy that makes protection of human life the priority.”. . . .
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FYI...
The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is a lobby group in the United Kingdom whose stated aims are to challenge "extremely damaging and harmful policies" envisaged by governments to mitigate anthropogenic global warming. The GWPF as well as some of its prominent members have been characterized as promoting climate change denial.
 
Some surprises in polar bear sea ice habitat at mid-October 2020
Posted on October 17, 2020 | Comments Offon Some surprises in polar bear sea ice habitat at mid-October 2020
Arctic sea ice has been growing steadily since the minimum extent was reached a month ago, with shorefast ice now developing along the Russian and Alaskan coastlines as ice cover expands in the Central Canadian Arctic. So while it’s true that the main pack of Arctic ice is far from the Russian shoreline, rapidly developing shorefast ice will allow bears to begin hunting seals long before ice in the central Arctic Basin reaches the Siberian shore, as they do in Western and Southern Hudson Bay every fall.

Cropped sea ice extent at 15 October 2020 (Day 289), NSIDC Masie.
And speaking of Western Hudson Bay, it’s a very slow season around Churchill for problem polar bears (photo below) – the quietest mid-October for the Polar Bear Alert Program in the last five years and perhaps the quietest in decades (which I could say for sure if I had the records but I do not).

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Ten fat polar bears filmed raiding a stalled Russian garbage truck
Posted on October 20, 2020 | Comments Offon Ten fat polar bears filmed raiding a stalled Russian garbage truck
From the Siberian Times today (20 October) is a story with few facts but a fabulous video of six fat adults and four fat cubs as they set siege to a stalled open garbage truck in the Russian Arctic. It may have been filmed on Novaya Zemlya but that has not been confirmed.

Of course, Novaya Zemlya has had previous problems with bears habituated to garbage, most famously an extended incident in 2019 that was perversely blamed on climate change.
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